Singapore, 13 February 2017 – Taiwanese singer Yoga Lin, who was recently in Singapore for his solo concert, launched UFM100.3’s annual music chart campaign, U1000 Music Countdown (U选1000), with a video addressing his fans and rallying for nominations.

The 10-week long campaign commences today (13 February) with a 3-week nomination period. Listeners can nominate their favourite Mandarin songs of all time so that they may top the 1000 best Mandarin song chart.

During the video interview, UFM100.3 DJs Xinying and Weilong invited a “special guest” to bring Yoga Lin some good luck for this year’s campaign – a human-size standee of Hebe Tien, whose song “A Little Happiness” 《小幸运》 topped the chart in 2016. For a slight moment when the standee was brought out, Yoga mistook Hebe as his fiancée, Kiki Ding.

When asked if he was confident in surpassing his label-mate Hebe’s past results, he shared that he is hopeful his fans can make it happen. However, he encouraged them to use only 70 percent of their efforts to nominate and vote for him. He hopes his song “Bo Le”《伯乐》will be the runner up in the chart, so that Hebe’s song can remain the champion.

Carine Ang, Program Director of UFM100.3, SPH Radio, said: “U1000 has always been a very special and important campaign to our team. It has not only helped strengthen the brand and music positioning of our station, but also helped us identify and understand the trends and preferences of the public year after year. This year, we have decided to give more songs a chance to go through the voting stage. We will be shortlisting 2000 songs (instead of 1500) in the voting stage. I’m looking forward to this year’s countdown and would like to welcome you to be part of it too”.

U1000 Music Countdown Campaign is proudly presented by VITAGEN Less Sugar. Listeners who participate in the nomination, voting and countdown phases of U1000 Music Countdown will stand to win up to $10,000 in cash, as well as other attractive prizes.

About U1000 Music Countdown

U1000 Music Countdown (U选1000) is UFM100.3’s annual campaign that gives listeners the power to determine the songs to be played on UFM100.3 through nominating and voting for their favourite songs. The top 1000 songs as voted by listeners will then be featured on the music countdown on-air. Last year, the station garnered over 8,000 listeners participating in the various phases of the campaign. A crowd of over 2,500 supporters went down to witness the final chart results on the last day of the countdown via a Live Broadcast session by UFM100.3 DJs at Bugis Junction. Concurrently, the radio station also garnered over 7,000 video views of the live video streaming of the broadcast on-line. Digital streaming of the radio station tripled its average listenership on that day as well.